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==Description==
==Description==
Below are listed pages and tools that address the specialized typographic needs of classicists. See also [[:category:Unicode|Unicode page]].
Scholarship in classics frequently involves dealing with unusual alphabets, scripts, and letterforms. The [[:category:Unicode|Unicode]] standard is designed to encode the characters of the world's writing systems (living and ancient), but it does not attempt to encode glyphs, which have been ceded to fonts and type design.


[[category:Unicode]]
Below are listed pages and tools that address the specialized typographic needs of classicists.

Revision as of 16:35, 6 September 2016

Description

Scholarship in classics frequently involves dealing with unusual alphabets, scripts, and letterforms. The Unicode standard is designed to encode the characters of the world's writing systems (living and ancient), but it does not attempt to encode glyphs, which have been ceded to fonts and type design.

Below are listed pages and tools that address the specialized typographic needs of classicists.